Sonny Bono net worth

Net Worth: $15 Million

About Sonny Bono

It has been reported that the current size of Sonny Bono net worth is as much as 15 million dollars. Sonny Bono was a well known recording producer and singer, but in the latest years of his career, he also turned to be an actor as well as a politician and restaurateur. Thus, all of these involvements of his added up a lot of revenues to the overall sum of Sonny Bono net worth. Sonny Bono was born in 1935 in Detroit Michigan and his real birth name is Salvatore Phillip Bono. Unfortunately, he passed away in 1998.
He started his career in show business as a singer. Later, he decided to become a restaurateur and finished his work as a politician. Therefore, all of these spheres played a huge role in making his name famous as well as increasing the overall sum of Sonny Bono net worth. Sonny Bono never finished school as he left it in order to seek for a career in music world. However, in the beginning he would hardly get a job as a musician as nobody wanted to listen to his music. He became more recognized when he was hired as an assistant to Phil Spector, a record producer.
In 1964 his first hit was released called “Needles and pins”.

The song was recorded on the label he owned by a British group called “The Searchers”. Sonny Bono met Cherilyn Sarkisian, who at that time was 16 years old and was an aspiring actress and nightclub singer. The couple would eventually get married and become parents of a baby girl in 1964. In 1965 the couple became well known everywhere in the world as the singers of the popular song called “I Got You Babe”. The sales of the single added up a lot to the total amount of Sonny Bono net worth. After the release of this song, more hits followed, such as “The Beat Goes On”. The couple also appeared in some films, including “Good Times”. Sonny Bono also created one musical piece called “Chastity”.
In the end of the 60s, the couple’s fame began to fade due to their addiction to drugs. However, the couple was performing up until the middle of the 70s. Sonny Bono also tried to work as a solo act, but it did not turn out to be as good as he planned. Sonny Bono later founded a restaurant called Bono and ventured into politics.